'I pulled Burt Reynolds' wig off during sex': Ex-TV writer reveals all about her intimate encounters with the rich and famous

Writing for 'The Dick Cavett Show' in the late 60s, Sandra Harmon had a chance to meet, and make love with, some of the era's most famous men from musicians to intellectuals to heartthrob actors.

Now at the age of 74, Harmon, who lives on Roosevelt Island, in New York City, recounts her romantic adventures both good and bad as she works on her memoirs.

'Five
guests a day, some of the most fabulous men in the world. That only
happens on a talk show, and ‘Cavett’ was a top-notch talk show that was
above the rest in taste and intellect,' she said.

No regrets: Harmon looks back on her many lovers as a golden age in her life at a time when the free love movement was at its peak

Memoirs of a free spirit: Harmon said that as an attractive young woman she never had to come on to a man, only be receptive

She claims to have never had to approach a man, as she simply let her looks do the work for her.

'I
have never come on to any man in my life — wouldn’t think of it! That
is the man’s role,' she said. 'The truth is that if you are beautiful —
and I was beautiful — you don’t have to do much of anything at all. You
just have to be receptive.'

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Her only seduction technique was to
undo the top three buttons of her sweater so that men couldn't help but
notice her ample bosom.

Harmon started at the Cavett show
after divorcing Larry Harmon, a man better known as his most successful
character of Bozo the Clown.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous: Sandra Harmon's work brought her into contact with many connected people, like Arnold Stiefel, manager for Rod Stewart

Ups and downs: While Harmon treasures her time with some of the world's most famous men, many were cruel or drank too much

A Sophia Loren-lookalike, the
bombshell with no showbiz experience who had dropped out of high school
thought she'd have no problem making it on wits alone.

'Larry wrote the Bozo the Clown cartoons, and he wasn't that smart,' she said. 'So I figured I could do it.'

She
became the Cavett show's only female writer after starting as a
secretary, and was soon interviewing famous names to figure out the best
questions to ask on air.

Most of those meetings took place at upscale hotels.

To this day, she told The New York Post, her favorite conquest remains Donald Sutherland.

Time of her life: Now in her 70s, Sandra Harmon reflects on her time as a writer for the Dick Cavett show when she met and bedded several of the era's most famous men

Legend: Harmon spent the night with Jimi Hendrix not long after Woodstock

She had just seen his film 'Joanna' and thought he was terribly attractive when the two met for a interview at the Plaza hotel.

As the two talked, he held her hand and told he she was 'nubile.'

He called her at home later that same night.

'I
have experienced pure joy only once in my life, and it was with him. I
was 31 years old, and I knew, finally, what it was like to lie with a
man whose mind I respected and whose wit I adored. I lay beside this
lovely, shy giant and felt totally and absolutely satisfied as a woman,'
she said.

They carried on the affair for more than a year when Sutherland came to New York City, but he broke it off in 1970.

Whoops: Harmon said she started to get romantic with Burt Reynolds in the dressing room after Dick Cavett left, but accidentally pulled his wig off

'He couldn’t make love to me. He said he had
just met Jane Fonda and he had fallen in love,' she said. 'The one guy I
picked left me for the Hollywood princess. There was nothing I could
do.'

She continued her liaisons with famous men, but no one lived up to Donald.

Some encounters were downright awkward. Like the time and Burt Reynolds started getting friendly in the show's dressing room.

'At some point, I don't know what I touched, but his toupee flew off. I was shocked. I was turned off. He was turned off. Everyone was turned off. It was over. That ended the romance,' she said.

She had no excuse, as Burt's publicist had warned her about the trouble spots.

'She
knew he wore a toupee, and as a joke she sent me the glossy with red
pencil marking where his toupee was attached and where I should not tug
in case I had sex with him. I had no intention of having sex with him,
so I didn’t pay much attention to it except to laugh, and then I forgot
all about it,' Harmon said.

Favorite: Harmon said actor Donald Sutherland was the rare man who left her fulfilled

'In a moment of passion, I grabbed his hair in exactly the wrong place - and it popped off and fell on the floor.'

Another memorable experience was bedding Jimi Hendrix when she interviewed him for the post-Woodstock show.

'He
decided he wanted to come over to my place. He brought his guitar, he
played for me, turned me on to coke for the first time. We made love for
a long, long time, which is what happens when you are on coke,' she
said. 'He was a lovely guy — a fragile body — very gentle and sweet. I
saw him once again and not long after, he died.'

Other favorites were orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta, her boss.

Golden years: After the Cavett show, Harmon went on to become a writer and love coach, life coach, and love trainer

Not so hot were the men who couldn't handle their liquor - like Norman Mailer and Oliver Reed - the 'rough' Maximilian Schell, and the too-tall Michael Crichton.

But none were as bad as Eddie Albert of 'Green Acres' fame.

'I
was talking to him like he was this great guy, and that’s when he
jumped me, pinned me down on the bed, pulled off my clothes. I didn’t
know what to do because I was a new writer and I was scared,' she said. 'I was not screaming — I was clenching.'

She says she didn't tell police because she was still trying to 'get it right' in her younger days.

Now she has no regrets but a lot of fond memories, and she still opens her buttons some days.

After the Cavett show she became the head writer for 'The Bill Cosby Show,' wrote five books, and had a career in the film industry.

'How
could I have regrets? It was the sexual revolution. The mantra was sex,
drugs and rock ’n’ roll. There was no such thing as AIDS or HIV. I was
26 years old, very pretty, and just having left a marriage, I was eager
for love and romance,' she said. 'Who wouldn’t be attracted to them,
and, happily, they were attracted to me. Remember, it was the sexual
revolution for them, too.

'The only regret is that it was
difficult to get used to regular guys after all the glamour and perks
that came with being with a celebrity. But it did show me that I could
become someone — instead of being the secretary my mother wanted me to
be.